Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Sunday Special From GK

Here is a few monitoring observations which I like to share with you.
All were from February 26th..sunday..

Receiver Used:Grundig YB 400
Antenna Used:Long Copper  Wire(30 ft plus length)..height 20ft Plus  as External  Antenna with Co-axial Lead In
Geographical Location of Reception Place(Abhayapuri)(Assam)(India):
Longitude:26º18´20´´North
Latitude:90º37´50´´East


Wavescan(English Version) From Adventist World Radio:
The Wavescan,the DX Program of Aventist World Radio (AWR) was audible this sunday also i.e.February 26th with similar reception quality like the previous sunday i.e.February 19th.The reception of noisy & with slightly difficult to copy on 11750kHz(Via Nauen,Germany) during 1530-1600UTC and was audible with good reception overall on 15715kHz(KSDA,Guam) from 1600-1630UTC.
Here is a link to the audio file of the recordings of last moments of the program around 1628utc on 15715kHz. 
https://app.box.com/s/sod8vkjp1a7nwxwht2yuc08ahs7ci6vu

Sunday Sports World On BBC World Service
Heard on February 26th..sunday BBCWS's Sunday Sports World Program on 7465kHz from 1646utc onwards for 10 minutes or so.There was live commentary of English Footbal League Cup final soccer match between Southampton ..Vs Manchester United.. and the 87th minute free kick conversion..by Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Manchester United recorded by me...I was right person at the right time 
ReCatch the action.....with this audio file link...1649utc..
https://app.box.com/s/nxwa0uyu4zgnartq385e2ba0npn1eh05

More Monitoring observations etc soon.
73 & 55
Gautam Kumar Sharma(GK)
Abhayapuri(Assam)(India)

Monday, February 13, 2017

Atlast Heard Wavescan After A Long Break On Radio

I heard on February 12th ,Wavescan,the DX Program of Adventist World Radio in English after a long break..(since 2nd sunday of November 2016)..on 15715kHz during 1600-1629UTC via KSDA Guam with fair QSA & slightly noisy & QSB &  reception quality overall was fair.The transmission was also audible on 15490kHz during the same time slot.But the reception quality was better on 15715kHz.Due to poor propagation condition,I understand the transmission was not audible here at all as per almost regular monitoring on sundays since 2nd week of November last.Last week in any of the frequencies as per their skd here.I wrote a letter to the program on the issue last week.
Earlier the reception of the program was poor & noisy on 11750kHz(via Nauen) during 1530-1600UTC. Also nothing was audible on another frequency of the program on 11955kHz (via Trincomalee,SLBC) during 1600-1630UTC.
(Rx:Grundig YB 400 ANT:Long Copper wire of 30 plus feet length & 20 plus ht..with co-axial lead in)

Here is the link to the audio recorded at 1600UTC on 15715kHz of Wavescan.
 https://app.box.com/s/u6u8gg0uqrs2x2ysv1q1oxy3g0n6y6n7

More updates etc soon
73 & 55
Gautam Kumar Sharma(GK)
(Abhayapuri)(Assam)(India)

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

A Few Monitoring Observations

Here is a few monitoring observation which I like to share with you.

Geographical Location of Reception Place(Abhayapuri):
Longitude:26º18´20´´North
Latitude:90º37´50´´East
Receiver:Grundig YB 400 (Digital Read OUT)
Antenna:Long Copper  Wire(30 ft plus length)..height 20ft Plus  as External  Antenna
Co-axial Lead In
(for all cases)

Date:February 6,2017

Korean Broadcasting Service (KBS) World Radio English on 7215kHz during 1400-1500UTC is facing QRM as Side Band Splatter from 7220kHz China Radio International-Nepali Service.
Here is audio file link recorded around 1447UTC:
https://app.box.com/s/zvf7u9scf7aqw4skuh1otltjno30mj2u

Radio Taiwan International-English noted with poor noisy reception quality on its new frequency of 9405kHz(1600-1700UTC) .
Here is audio file link recorded at 1600UTC
https://app.box.com/s/zotzf0eqlpviumksor336sqv4bdvnrc5


More Monitoring Observations etc soon.
73 & 55
Gautam Kr Sharma(GK)
(Abhayapuri)(Assam)(India)

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Update On BBC Hindi On Shortwave

From February 4,2017 (saturday) BBC Hindi Service 's evening transmission(Dinbhar) during 1400-1430UTC on shortwave will be available on the following frequencies
5885kHz(49mb), 7600kHz(41mb) 9740KHz(31mb) & 11995kHz(25mb) as per their latest annoucement.
I understand the  present frequencies of 7565kHz & 9510kHz will be deleted from Februray 4th.
73 & 55
Gautam Kumar Sharma(GK)
(Abhayapuri)(Assam)(India)